Feb 17, 2019
OMG real-life hacking success! Well, barely ;) But I’m still excited about it.
My mom mentioned that those overlay ads that pop up at the end of some Youtube videos were annoying her, and asked if there were a way to get rid of them. Now, what I’ve always personally done is simply to open the DOM inspector and manually delete the HTML elements that correspond to the overlays, but I realized that would be a lot to ask of my somewhat less computer-confident parents.
So then the thought struck me... time to code a solution! Within five minutes I had whipped up a script to hide all the overlays at the end of videos. Tested it on various YT channels, and yup, it works – so I sent it off to the ‘rents.
Ahhhhh I’m so pleased right now :D